Vern Paxson, with the help of many ideas and much inspiration from Van Jacobson. Original version by Jef Poskanzer. The fast table representation is a partial implementation of a design done by Van Jacobson. The implementation was done by Kevin Gong and Vern Paxson.
Thanks to the many flex beta-testers, feedbackers, and
contributors, especially Francois Pinard, Casey Leedom, Stan
Adermann, Terry Allen, David Barker-Plummer, John Basrai, Nelson
H.F. Beebe, `benson@odi.com', Karl Berry, Peter A. Bigot,
Simon Blanchard, Keith Bostic, Frederic Brehm, Ian Brockbank, Kin
Cho, Nick Christopher, Brian Clapper, J.T. Conklin, Jason Coughlin,
Bill Cox, Nick Cropper, Dave Curtis, Scott David Daniels, Chris
G. Demetriou, Theo Deraadt, Mike Donahue, Chuck Doucette, Tom Epperly,
Leo Eskin, Chris Faylor, Chris Flatters, Jon Forrest, Joe Gayda, Kaveh
R. Ghazi, Eric Goldman, Christopher M. Gould, Ulrich Grepel, Peer
Griebel, Jan Hajic, Charles Hemphill, NORO Hideo, Jarkko Hietaniemi,
Scott Hofmann, Jeff Honig, Dana Hudes, Eric Hughes, John Interrante,
Ceriel Jacobs, Michal Jaegermann, Sakari Jalovaara, Jeffrey R. Jones,
Henry Juengst, Klaus Kaempf, Jonathan I. Kamens, Terrence O Kane,
Amir Katz, `ken@ken.hilco.com', Kevin B. Kenny, Steve Kirsch,
Winfried Koenig, Marq Kole, Ronald Lamprecht, Greg Lee, Rohan Lenard,
Craig Leres, John Levine, Steve Liddle, Mike Long, Mohamed el Lozy,
Brian Madsen, Malte, Joe Marshall, Bengt Martensson, Chris Metcalf,
Luke Mewburn, Jim Meyering, R. Alexander Milowski, Erik Naggum,
G.T. Nicol, Landon Noll, James Nordby, Marc Nozell, Richard Ohnemus,
Karsten Pahnke, Sven Panne, Roland Pesch, Walter Pelissero, Gaumond
Pierre, Esmond Pitt, Jef Poskanzer, Joe Rahmeh, Jarmo Raiha, Frederic
Raimbault, Pat Rankin, Rick Richardson, Kevin Rodgers, Kai Uwe Rommel,
Jim Roskind, Alberto Santini, Andreas Scherer, Darrell Schiebel, Raf
Schietekat, Doug Schmidt, Philippe Schnoebelen, Andreas Schwab, Alex
Siegel, Eckehard Stolz, Jan-Erik Strvmquist, Mike Stump, Paul Stuart,
Dave Tallman, Ian Lance Taylor, Chris Thewalt, Richard M. Timoney,
Jodi Tsai, Paul Tuinenga, Gary Weik, Frank Whaley, Gerhard Wilhelms,
Kent Williams, Ken Yap, Ron Zellar, Nathan Zelle, David Zuhn, and
those whose names have slipped my marginal mail-archiving skills but
whose contributions are appreciated all the same.
Thanks to Keith Bostic, Jon Forrest, Noah Friedman, John Gilmore, Craig Leres, John Levine, Bob Mulcahy, G.T. Nicol, Francois Pinard, Rich Salz, and Richard Stallman for help with various distribution headaches.
Thanks to Esmond Pitt and Earle Horton for 8-bit character support; to Benson Margulies and Fred Burke for C++ support; to Kent Williams and Tom Epperly for C++ class support; to Ove Ewerlid for support of NUL's; and to Eric Hughes for support of multiple buffers.
This work was primarily done when I was with the Real Time Systems Group at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. Many thanks to all there for the support I received.
Send comments to `vern@ee.lbl.gov'.
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